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Overview

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6.9/10   4,968 votes
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Writers:
Joe Hyams (book)
Thomas O. Murton (book)
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Release Date:
20 June 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the warden! more
Plot:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win more
User Comments:
Get sent to jail, and you wonder whether this could happen. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert Redford ... Henry Brubaker
Yaphet Kotto ... Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

Jane Alexander ... Lillian Gray
Murray Hamilton ... John Deach

David Keith ... Larry Lee Bullen

Morgan Freeman ... Walter
Matt Clark ... Roy Purcell
Tim McIntire ... Huey Rauch
Richard Ward ... Abraham Cook

Jon Van Ness ... Zaranska

M. Emmet Walsh ... C.P. Woodward
Albert Salmi ... Rory Poke

Linda Haynes ... Carol
Everett McGill ... Eddie Caldwell

Val Avery ... Wendel
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Additional Details

Runtime:
132 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Columbus, Ohio, USA more

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Trivia:
Nicolas Cage has a cameo role in the film, making it the first film he ever appeared in. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: In a restaurant scene, a Conn's Potato Chip sales display can be seen. Conn's are only made and sold in Ohio, not Arkansas. more
Quotes:
C.P. Woodward: I'm not in the construction business for my health.
Henry Brubaker: Or anybody else's, it seems.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Teen-Age Crime Wave (#6.22)" (1994) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Get sent to jail, and you wonder whether this could happen., 25 February 2006
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Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

Robert Redford plays another dignified character, this time as new warden Henry Brubaker posing as an inmate in a corrupt prison to understand the deplorable conditions there. As is the case with any prison-related film, we get to see some really ugly things here. Maybe "Brubaker" goes a little overboard in portraying its main character as a saint, but considering that the main point is to show the inhumanity of this country's penal system (which apparently hasn't changed much since this movie came out), they do a good job. I'd say that it's another movie that, if nothing else, deserves kudos for disproving the "Disney-ized" version of the world that we often get shown. A very good movie.

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